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The Domestic Sheep have a more or less elongated tall, and are generally covered with wool, which 
sometimes falls off in summer, leaving a close-pressed coat of hair. Some races of warm climates are always 
covered only with hair. Horns triangular, ringed, spiral. Aries. 
Domestic Sheep. Odis Aries. 
Ovis Aries, Linn. S. N. i. 97. — Amoen. Acad. iv. 169. — O. domestica, Brisson, R. A. 74. — Capra ovis, Blum. Nat. 
— Musmon Aries, Schrank. — Sheep, Penn. — Brehis, BufFon, H. N. vi. 1, 2. 
The Domestic Sheep offer many varieties in the form and even in the number of the horns, and espe- 
cially in the texture of their fur. Many, in cold and temperate climates, which are covered with wool when 
they are moved to a warmer climate, become permanently covered with short hair. Dr. Gardiner, in his 
Journey from Pernambuco to Crato, passed through a flock of several hundred sheep ; " the excessive heat 
of the climate had wrought a remarkable change in their appearance, their skin being wholly destitute of 
wool, and replaced by a short hair not unlike that of a cow." — Travels, 163. But some kinds, even in 
England, which have wool in the winter, are only covered with short adpressed hair in the summer. 
This is the case with the West India Sheep noticed by Mr. BIyth. — Ann. Nat. Hist. vii. 255. They also 
present several varieties in the form of the tail. The following are some of the varieties which have been 
noticed : 
1 . Spanish Sheep (Shaw, Zool.). 
Ovis Hispanicus, Linn. Amoen. Acad. iv. 174. — Merino, Desm. N. Diet. H. N. t. 918. f. 1, 2. — Merino Sheep, 
Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. f. 682.— British Middle Wooled Sheep, Knight, Mus. Ann. Nat. f. 684. 
2. Common Sheep (Penn, Syn.). 
Ovis Rusticus, Linn. Amoen. Acad. iv. 174.— O. Gallica, Desm. — O. hrachyura, Pallas, Spic. Zool. — 0. leptura, 
Schreb. Saugth. t. 290 A. B. 
a. Hornless Sheep. 
O. Anglicana, Linn. Amoen. Acad. iv. 174. — Ovis A. Anglicus, Erxleb. — Lincolnshire Sheep. 
h. Black-Faced Sheep (Fleming, Brit. Anim. 25). 
Ovis collaris. Walker, Essays, 522. 
c. MuGGS Sheep and Shetland Sheep (Fleming, Brit. Anim. 25.) 
d. Barwall Sheep (Hodgson, Icon. ined. t. ). 
Inhabits central region, Nepal {Hodgsori). 
e. The Cago or Cajia Bhira (Hodgson, Icon. ined. t. ). 
Inhabits Nepal, central region {Hodgsori). 
f. The HooNiA Sheep. 
Inhabits Nepal ; Kachar only. Plains. 
g. The Silenzia Sheep. 
Inhabits Nepal ; Kachar. Tame. 
h. CuRUMBAR Sheep (Buchanan, Mysore, ii. 277. t. 17. f. 42, 43 c? ? .) 
Inhabits India ; Mysore. 
I. Sheep of Belkah (Buckingham, Trav. Arab. Tribes, 93). 
Inhabits Palestine ; Plains of Belkah. 
k. West Indian Sheep (Blyth, Ann. N. H. vii. 255, note). 
Inhabits West Indies. Mus. Zool. Soc. 
/. Brasilian Sheep (Gardiner, Trav. Brazils, 163). 
3. Smooth-haired Sheep. 
Ovis Africanus, Raii Syn. 75. — Linn. Amoen. Acad. vi. 173. — O. Mthiopica, Charlet. Exerc. 9. — 0. Africana, 
Sloane, Jam. ii. 328. 
